30 May UW researchers using AI to hone brain cancer care, diagnosis
Researchers with the UW Carbone Cancer Center are developing AI techniques to improve personalized treatments and avoid unnecessary biopsies and surgeries.
Pallavi Tiwari is co-director of imaging and radiation science at the Madison-based cancer center and an associate professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Her team is gathering MRI scans from clinical sites around the world to train artificial intelligence models to predict how patients will respond to treatment.
“We want to personalize treatment for every patient based on the kind of tumor that they have,” she said in remarks provided by UW Health
One promising application of this technology aims to help patients with an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, Tiwari said. After treatment, these patients have to return for follow-up care due to the high risk of recurrence. With currently available tools, specialists are unable to tell the difference between a benign noncancerous lesion caused by the radiation treatment and new tumor growth. Read more …